Al Sharpton on College Campus Protests: They ‘Lost the Message’

Sharpton: “But — but that is the bottom — anytime what you are protesting for —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
Sharpton: “— become secondary to what you are doing, then you’re really not protesting for it. And — and — and you in many ways dramatize. What we did in the ‘80s, what I did later in other situations was to bring attention to a cause, not become the cause.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
Sharpton: “And what is troubling me about a lot of this is they become the cause, it’s about them. It is not about pushing the cause. They need to ask themselves if they were sincere.”
GEIST: “Right.”
Sharpton: “Are you really focusing on what’s going on in Gaza, about the children, about the women, about the innocent people and in Israel? Are you focusing on whether or not you are violent or whether or not you can say the most incendiary statement? How are you guiding this? It’s about them. And I think —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Right.”
Sharpton: “— they — they’ve lost the message. And I think that’s because they’ve been infiltrated by people that are there —“ [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “Yes.”
BRZEZINSKI: “That is what I’m worried about.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Well, and that is — that’s — that’s what we’re all worried about.”